Tag: cuba
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Big Agra Descends on Cuba to Spread GMOs
from startribune.com:: A delegation of 75 top U.S. agriculture leaders organized by Minnetonka-based Cargill Inc. will arrive in Cuba this weekend on a trade mission to explore the potential for increased business between the two countries. Leaders said the trip will be a “learning journey” to understand what Cuba may need from U.S. farms, including…
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White House Created ZunZuneo, ‘Cuban Twitter,’ NOT As Covert Operation
US Secretly Created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to Stir Unrest* from voanews.com: The White House says a so-called “Cuban Twitter” communications network created by the U.S. government was a development program, not a covert operation. White House spokesman Jay Carney commented about the program Thursday, responding to a report by the Associated Press news agency. Carney said…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode183 – New Crimean War, Mt. Gox Crumbles, Twitter Predictor
#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode183 – New Crimean War, Mt. Gox Crumbles, Twitter Predictor
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2/16 Binge and Purge: Arsenic and Old Taste
Organic Food Can Have High Concentrations of Arsenic // EU and US agree to Historic New Partnership on Organic Trade’ // Organic Farmer Prince Charles on Changing Our Faulty Food System // China’s Xi, US officials talk food trade in Iowa // Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning // Obama’s budget cuts bacteria testing in produce…
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Cuba Reports Big Increase In Food Prices
Cubans paid almost 20 percent more for food in 2011 as economic reforms, reduced imports and stagnating farm production touched off price inflation at the country’s many produce markets.
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geopolitiks: dictators, drills & burning bridges
bilderberg van rompuy the new eu president* bilderberger & closed-door meetings: eu gets medieval with ultra-secret elections*trilateralist replaces bilderberger to chair copenhagen summit*mep reprimanded for exposing eu dictatorship*denmark approves new police powers ahead of copenhagen*video: bomb caused russian derailment* suspected bomb derails moscow-st petersburg train, kills at least 25*video: obama threatens iran with new sanctions*…
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cia continues to stonewall release jfk assassination files
from raw story: The CIA is fighting to prevent the release of hundreds of documents involving its funding of an anti-Castro group in New Orleans that engaged in well-publicized clashes with Lee Harvey Oswald in the summer of 1963. The New York Times reported on Friday that the files “involve the curious career of George…
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geopolitiks: bombs, moms, coups & a moral twilight zone
video: warmongers who sold you the iraq warare (still) pushing for a war with iran* stop bombing us: osama isn’t here, says pakistan*warships in suez prepare for iran attack*israeli soldiers in gaza describe a ‘moral twilight zone’*report: israeli soldier threatened to rape mother of detained boy:”shut up or i will f*** you”*china: 184 lives claimed…
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state dept retiree, wife accused of spying for cuba for decades
from dpa: US authorities announced Friday the arrests of a retired State Department employee and his wife on charges of spying for the Cuban government. Authorities allege that Walter Kendall Myers and wife Gwendolyn served as illegal agents to the Cuban government for nearly 30 years and conspired to pass along classified information. Both were…
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geopolitiks: tiananmen anniversary, israeli terror drills & more
the tiananmen square anniversary will not be tweeted censorship on tiananmen anniversary cripples chinese netfrom threat level: June 4 isn’t just the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China, it’s also known as Chinese Internet Maintenance day. That’s because many Chinese services are facing so much pressure from the government to keep their…
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sam donaldson is a jfk truther
from huffington post: Asked to reflect upon the coming end of Fidel Castro’s time and regime in Cuba, longtime ABC newsman Sam Donaldson had one last request: to be beside Castro’s bedside to ask if he was responsible for John F. Kennedy’s assassination. “You mentioned the assassination,” Donaldson, appearing on ABC’s This Week on Sunday…
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the unsolved mystery
3 new books offer competing versions of jfk’s assassinationfrom new york observer: What can we hope to gain from a new book about the J.F.K. assassination? Surely not that it reveal some definitive truth about the events in Dallas, since with every passing year, with each frustrating release of declassified information, it becomes clear that…
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nagin on gustav: ‘this is the storm of the century’
fema: gustav to be category 5from ap: The government’s disaster relief chief says Hurricane Gustav is growing into a monster Category 5 storm. The storm that hit Cuba Saturday could reach landfall along the Gulf Coast by early Tuesday. Federal Emergency Management Agency chief David Paulison told reporters several times at a briefing Saturday that…
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bay of pigs ‘hero’ meets his maker
from miami herald: Grayston L. Lynch, a hero of the anti-Castro movement for his leadership in the Bay of Pigs invasion, where fired the first shot of the battle, died at 85 on Aug. 10… In his 1998 book, Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs, Lynch detailed his role as CIA case…
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mgm to remake ‘red dawn’ for a post-9/11 world
from hollywood reporter: “Red Dawn” will be redone. Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth has been hired to recraft the ultimate homeland invasion story about a new generation of besieged high schoolers… “The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we’re in,” says Ellsworth, who was 11 when the…